"how did the guy with no friends win?"
except, he did have a friend in the end
Pearl, a past winner who was also all alone the entirety of DL and went mad because of it
Pearl, who won because the person who betrayed her at the very start atoned for what he did by sacrificing himself and giving her the win
("I guess I forgive you after all...")
Pearl, who after healing from that betrayal went on to open her heart to alliances in the end (Nosy Neighbors + Grian et. al.) and eventually did find one she could call...family (The Mounders)
Pearl, who was the ONLY one to extend that invitation to the friendless villain ("I guess you found your family after all, Scar")
Because she was the only one who knew what it was like to be all alone, like him
But also come back from that dark place and reach out to someone who suffered just like her
And in the end they became a duo, she even tried to sacrifice her life for that fellow 'undeserving' lonely person, and only didn't because he wanted a 'fair' (for a given definition of that word) fight
Even at the end, Scar's "I'm gonna get you Pearl!" loses just...a tinge of the angry, bitter bloodlust he'd been baring throughout the session, and sounds almost playful
And then "she's dead scar. you won."
He killed the only person left who considered him a friend because she, in a sense, gave her life to him
It didn't start with the duel. It started with her hand of forgiveness.
but also because Scar really did become so much better at pvp like dang his red kills were vicious
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I have many beefs with snk final chapter. Besides the well known points, I had thought many times how weird it was that after a 80% global destruction, we had actually got that "London" scene.
I read it, by necessary narrative logic, as if that city should be one of the last remaining places untouched by the rumbling. And it made glad that - when the guys went back to Paradis, Levi stayed behind, and were in the company of such amazing people = Onyankopon. With bonus Falbi. It made sense, and was a relief.
However, the fact that actually their struggles to rebuild was greater and more realistic now in the anime - that is what we got during that new Levi moment - was nice. I mean, the post-apocalyptic atmosphere and these circunstancies always made much more sense. Eren left the world in shambles. He literally brought hell upon Earth. If you want to make things realistic, this really was a fair little twist.
The focus on this still healing world concept, on this in the restoration process vision - I liked it.
Some actual sense after that erehmin manga end.
And, OF COURSE, the snk human with one of the biggest hearts in the whole world would get involved in that.
Which is no surprise. We all knew (and talked in our 139 aus) that he would, somehow, want to help others. He would be involved. It's just who he is.
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Why don’t you want five in school?
Oh, I've ranted about it before in the tags of THIS POST but in general it makes me wildly uncomfortable. As an adult, the thought of hypothetically being forced back to high school is the fucking pits, you could not pay me enough to do it - and I even had a good time in high school! Five is almost 60 years old and they're going to force him to go to classes and hang out with teens? That feels bad from every angle! It forces Five to act in a way he'd only do under great duress and fucks his agency and autonomy as an adult so badly. There are better, more interesting ways to play with the consequences of his physical vs actual age than sending him to goddamn high school. There's other, less dominating options for the "he looks like a kid and never actually graduated" problem.
You do you if that's your jam, don't let a random dude on the internet yuck your yum, but Five in high school is a squick for me.
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I usually don't mind shippers, I just ignore them
But lestappens taking charles post saying the fights made him smile and turning this into "oh he's down bad for max" pissed off because what one thing has to do to another???
He also fought with checo, does that means he wants to fuck him?
Like it's so obviously not about max, charles loves racing and fighting for position it doesn't matter who he is fighting
It means he wants to fuck the car plain and simple <3
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What’s their least favorite smell?
5 Senses Questions!
@bluefeathrs
Definitely the smell of water-logged food. Forgotten dishes that have been left in the sink just a little bit longer than they reasonably should have... It doesn't occur often, but sometimes life happens and you just don't have time to do the dishes when you've got fiendish murder-plots to make and commit. It's why she opts to use paper or Styrofoam plates instead.
However, when dish-cleaning finally has to happen, it's almost always amusing and memorable for Dagny to watch.
Soggy food is also her second least favorite kind of texture as well.
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it's pretty interesting how marvin's defining characteristics in pop culture are the blowing up earth to see venus motivation and 'where's the kaboom' "catchphrase", both things that come from and occur only once in his very penultimate appearance of the golden age era. but in addition to that, are more associated with his initial green/red design, not the gold/green palette actually used for those final two shorts.
what Does also contain that green/red design is duck dodgers and the 24th 1/2 century, one of the two marvin shorts included in the bugs bunny/road runner compilation movie, which also named him and uses a new illustration with the "classic" palette, and I'm guessing that's what embedded those elements into newer generations' public perception and later marketing. I dunno I just think seeing what factors are picked up most by pop culture surrounding classic media is neat!!
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